So I've been thinking about all the upcoming Animated characters and wondering which ones they should definitely include when it hit me! SkyLynx would be a perfect addition to the cast; he has a humorous egotistical personality, every single part of his being is begging for the Animated treatment, he is a great Autobot warrior, he would be another addition to the few flying Autobots, and I could just picture him interacting so perfectly in the world of TFA, almost perfect Elite Guard material too. Any thoughts on this?

Well, what I mean is that a few of his alt modes are "beasts" which, with how big a deal it is that BA has a beast mode.

I do agree that his mannerisms would fit though, but he would probably need quite an overhaul in his forms

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Its not a 'BIG DEAL' that BA has a beast mode (the dinobots have those too) the 'big deal' is that she is techno organic where the dinobots arent they just have alt mode based on prehistoric earth animals.

Well, personally I would make the modes a little more different, perhaps make it more griffon-like. I think the lynx half was so stupid, so I would prefer him being called SkyLinx and maybe be based on Blitzwing but with the ability to separate, kinda like a one man army, here are my preferable modes:

SkyLynx is one of those characters that I always liked, despite the fact that I thought his G1 toy and general design was stupid. It's kind of a paradox.

He looked pretty dumb and his split modes were a bit awkward, but there was a lot of potential to be much cooler.

Plus, I really liked the notion of a monstrous beast form character being not only sentient and intelligent, but also the Lieutenant Commander of the Autobots. That was always part of what made him interesting and different.

I could see SkyLynx being one of the older TFs... part of some now-extinct subspecies of Cybertronian, who now fights on the side of the Autobots. I mean, he's basically a Cybertronian dragon, right? That might also explain his massive ego and sense of entitlement.

I could see SkyLynx being one of the older TFs... part of some now-extinct subspecies of Cybertronian, who now fights on the side of the Autobots. I mean, he's basically a Cybertronian dragon, right? That might also explain his massive ego and sense of entitlement.

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Now this gives me a decent enough idea-
Akin to the whole deal with Nova Prime an the others in the IDW-verse,
Sky-lynx is lost when his shuttle appears to blow up during a mission. He struggles to survive on an alien world for many years, until a probe is sent to his suspected loaction, which manages to bring him and the shuttle back. But a-la "Price of Life" the probe messes up, and Sky-Lynx now has his shuttle as his new alt-mode. Years of survivng on his own cause him to come off as an arogant loner to the other Autobots.